from USA Today, Kirsten Powers writes Obama’s Imperial Overreach Excerpts: Notice that the former constitutional law professor did not make a substantive legal case in defense of his executive power grabs. He merely stated that what he did was
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Daniel Greenfield writes The Post-Achievement Politics of Obama and Hillary in his excellent blog, The Sultan Knish Excerpts: Post-American politics are also post-achievement politics. The morality of progressivism is more important than the substance of progress. The politics of the
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Kevin Williamson writes The Front Man in The National Review, 8/5/2013 Excerpts: We have to some extent been here before. It is a testament to the success of free-market ideas that it is impossible to imagine President Obama making the announcement that President
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Daniel Greenfield writes in his blog Sultan Knish, The Art of Building Things, 6/10/13. Excerpts: The seduction of the collective as builder however is not limited to countries that flew the red flag. When Obama and Warren proclaimed that there were no
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Kevin Williamson writes The Front Man in The National Review, 8/5/2013 Excerpts: Democracy never lasts long,” Adams famously said. “It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” For liberal regimes, a very common starting
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Kevin Williamson writes The Front Man in The National Review, 8/5/2013 Excerpts: The result of this is his utterly predictable approach to domestic politics: appoint a panel of credentialed experts. His faith in the powers of pedigreed professionals is apparently absolute. Consider
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Kevin Williamson writes The Front Man in The National Review, 8/5/2013 Excerpts: It is not simply the content of his political agenda, which, though wretched, is a good deal less ambitious than was Woodrow Wilson’s or Richard Nixon’s. Barack Obama
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Kevin Williamson writes The Front Man in The National Review, 8/5/2013 Excerpts: Barack Obama’s administration is unmoored from the institutions that have long kept the imperial tendencies of the American presidency in check. That is partly the fault of Congress, which has
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Kevin Williamson writes The Front Man in The National Review, 8/5/2013 Excerpts: Congress’s supine ceding of its powers, and the Obama administration’s usurpation of both legal and extralegal powers, is worrisome. But what is particularly disturbing is the quiet, polite, workaday manner
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Kevin Williamson writes The Front Man in The National Review, 8/5/2013 Excerpts: For example, the president would very much like the unemployment problem to be somewhat abated by the time of the 2014 congressional elections, but he knows that this is unlikely
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Dateline 8/27/12 The polls show a close race and Intrade shows Obama with a 55.8% chance of victory as of 8:23 AM. This is down from 59% before the Ryan nomination and down from around 70% during the circular firing
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From the Wall Street Journal, ‘You Didn’t Build That’, 7/17/12: Speaking in Roanoke, Virginia, Mr. Obama delivered another paean to the virtues of higher taxes on the people he believes deserve to pay even more to the government. “There are
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Yes, we all drive on roads built by government taxes and our property is valuable because the police and the courts protect it, and our freedoms are secure because soldiers died to defend our rights. There are even products and
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There are simplistic voices in the GOP- not just the religious ones, but the ones that think a balanced budget amendment will solve all of our problems, that the Fed should be abolished and that we should return to a
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Obama beat McCain in 2008 with much larger margins than we have seen in recent elections. Obama got 53% of the popular votes to McCain’s 46%, 365 electoral votes to McCain’s 193. 9 states swung from red to blue. Not
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The Editors of the National Review wrote The Logo- Centrist, 6/16/12: Excerpt: The telling fact is that the president apparently is unable to discern the difference between what is his fault and what is his responsibility. The 1980 recession and the legacy
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“Some people are born on third base and think they hit a home run.” This quote refers to those who have an inherited financial or political advantage, or sometime just plain luck, but think that their brains had more to
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The president seeks a fairer distribution of wealth; he claims not to admonish prosperity, but seeks to be sure it is shared. There is a proven method to this noble objective and it lies under his nose. Instead of promoting
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Suppose you had no job and no investments. All of your assets existed in your checking account. The only tax you paid was a six per cent sales tax. A friend of yours has a job and pays 25% income
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The president’s jobs bill is a non starter, a desperate attempt to do something by doubling down on failed policies. Point one– He offers tax breaks to workers by extending the reduction in FICA taxes, and making up the deficit
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